Localized thymic amyloidosis presenting with myasthenia gravis: case report.

abstract：:Innovative replacement of incontinence surgery (IRIS) is a polypropylene tape that is placed beneath the midurethra to restore urinary continence. We evaluated the long-term efficacy and safety of the IRIS procedure and compared it with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) for the treatment of female stress urinary inconti...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoon CJ,Jung HC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjoined twins show varying degree of conjoining in either facing or side-by-side fashion. Cephalothoracopagus janiceps is a prototype of facing anomaly in which the two bodies demonstrated a cross symmetry to the midline, that is axial symmetry. Interfacial and intersternal lines crossed at a right angle and no abno...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Seo JW,Lee YS,Chi JG

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) is an increasingly common worldwide and colonizing S. aureus strains may serve as the causative pathogen for overt clinical infections. This study was performed to determine whether the pathogenic CA-MRSA isolate in clinical infections was geneti...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Bae IG,Kim JS,Kim S,Heo ST,Chang C,Lee EY

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated whether tempol, an anti-oxidant, protects against renal injury by modulating phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)-Akt-Forkhead homeobox O (FoxO) signaling. Mice received unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) surgery with or without administration of tempol. We evaluated renal damage, oxidative ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Yoon HE,Kim SJ,Kim SJ,Chung S,Shin SJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When access to a major duodenal papilla or endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has failed, percutaneous transhepatic cholangioscopic lithotripsy (PTCS-L) may be useful for removing common bile duct (CBD) stones. However, the feasibility and usefulness of percutaneous transhepatic papillary large-balloon dil...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Han JY,Jeong S,Lee DH

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cowden's disease, or multiple hamartoma syndrome, is an uncommon condition with characteristic mucocutaneous lesions associated with abnormalities of the breast, thyroid, and gastrointestinal tract. We describe a 32-year-old man with oral mucosal papillomatosis and plantar hyperkeratosis as a definite case of Cowden's...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee HR,Moon YS,Yeom CH,Kim KW,Chun JY,Kim HK,Choi HS,Kim DK,Chung TS

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The corporeal blood gas changes in accordance with the duration of the prolonged erection which developed after intracorporeal pharmacotherapy with papaverine and phentolamine were investigated in 62 impotence patients. The picture of the corporeal blood taken from 15 psychogenic impotence patients (a control group) a...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim SC,Seo KK,Oh CH

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:We described a novel multi-step retinal fundus image reading system for providing high-quality large data for machine learning algorithms, and assessed the grader variability in the large-scale dataset generated with this system. Methods:A 5-step retinal fundus image reading tool was developed that rates im...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park SJ,Shin JY,Kim S,Son J,Jung KH,Park KH

更新日期：2018-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Since a nationwide childhood vaccination with tetanus toxoid, tetanus has become a rare disease in Korea. However, we recently experienced 17 cases of adult tetanus in a university hospital during a 21-month period. Seventy percent of the patients were female, and the mean age was 63 yr (range, 29-87). The majority (8...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Shin DH,Yu HS,Park JH,Shin JH,Kim SJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxysterol 7α-hydroxylase deficiency is a very rare liver disease categorized as inborn errors of bile acid synthesis, caused by CYP7B1 mutations. As it may cause rapid progression to end-stage liver disease even in early infancy, a high index of suspicion is required to prevent fatal outcomes. We describe the case of ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Hong J,Oh SH,Yoo HW,Nittono H,Kimura A,Kim KM

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the relationship between the oral ingestion volume of xylene and methyl hippuric acid (MHA) in urine, we measured MHA in 11 patients whose ingested xylene volume was identified. The best-fit equation between urine MHA and ingested amount of xylene was as follows: y (ingested amount of xylene, mL/kg) = -0....

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Choi CY,Cho N,Park SY,Park S,Gil HW,Hong SY

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray analysis was used to investigate the lack of identified mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway downstream genes to overcome cross-talk at non-muscle invasive high-grade (HG)-urothelial carcinoma (UC) of the bladder, gene expression patterns, gene ontology, and gene clustering by triple (p70S6K, S6K, a...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Jin S,Chang IH,Kim JW,Whang YM,Kim HJ,Hong SA,Lee TJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local epidemiologic data on the etiologies of patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is needed to develop guidelines for clinical practice. This study was conducted prospectively to determine the proportion of atypical bacterial pathogens in adults patients hospitalized with CAP in Korea between...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Sohn JW,Park SC,Choi YH,Woo HJ,Cho YK,Lee JS,Sim HS,Kim MJ

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) is found to cause a large outbreak started from Wuhan since December 2019 in China and SARS-CoV-2 infections have been reported with epidemiological linkage to China in 25 countries until now. We isolated SARS-CoV-2 from the oropharyngeal sample obtained from the patient with the first l...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park WB,Kwon NJ,Choi SJ,Kang CK,Choe PG,Kim JY,Yun J,Lee GW,Seong MW,Kim NJ,Seo JS,Oh MD

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD(P)H oxidase plays an important role in hypertension and its complication in aldosterone-salt rat. We questioned whether NAD(P)H oxidase subunit expression and activity are modulated by aldosterone and whether this is associated with target-organ damage. Rats were infused with aldosterone (0.75 microg/hr/day) for 6...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park YM,Lim BH,Touyz RM,Park JB

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transverse myelitis (TM) extending from midbrain to the entire spinal cord accompanied by internuclear ophthalmoplegia is extremely rare but cause serious central nervous system complications in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. We report a case of a 28-yr-old woman with TM extending from the midbrain to the...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Rheu CW,Lee SI,Yoo WH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors analysed bone marrow findings of sixteen cases of culture proven typhoid fever to reveal the pathologic changes according to the disease stage. The most frequent finding was chronic granulomatous inflammation (eight cases). Infection (bacteria) associated hemophagocytic syndrome (four cases), reactive marr...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Shin BM,Paik IK,Cho HI

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collision tumor is defined by the presence of two separate masses in one organ, which are pathologically distinct. We described a 70-yr-old patient who complained of abnormal vaginal bleeding with a collision tumor of the uterine corpus. The patient received total hysterectomy, bilateral salphingo-oophorectomy, bila...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Jang KS,Lee WM,Kim YJ,Cho SH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report our experience in 13 patients who underwent transcatheter closure of Fontan fenestration with the Cook detachable coils. These patients underwent the extracardiac type Fontan operation with a short conduit fenestration (n=7) or lateral tunnel type with a punch-hole fenestration (n=6). Fenestration closure wa...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim SH,Kang IS,Huh J,Lee HJ,Yang JH,Jun TG

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined use of a drug-eluting balloon (DEB) and a bare metal stent (BMS) for the treatment of de novo non-small vessel coronary artery diseases (CAD) remains to be evaluated. We investigated the efficacy of a sequential treatment using a DEB together with a BMS implantation in comparison to a zotarolimus-eluting ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Chae IH,Yoon CH,Park JJ,Oh IY,Suh JW,Cho YS,Youn TJ,Choi DJ

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 32-year-old woman with a long-standing systemic lupus erythematosus had multiple subcutaneous nodules on her axillae, iliac crests and limbs. Three years ago, these nodules began to appear and slowly became larger. Some of them amassed to form a large, fungating, lobulated mass on her right iliac crest. Roentgenogra...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park YM,Lee SJ,Kang H,Cho SH

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone scan (BS) and serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) concentration are used to detect bone metastasis in malignancy, although whole-body fluoro-D-glucose positron emission tomography computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) is being used increasingly. But BS is still used for the detection of metastatic bone lesion. So we comp...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Min JW,Um SW,Yim JJ,Yoo CG,Han SK,Shim YS,Kim YW

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blowflies, especially species belonging to the subfamily Luciliinae, are the first insects to lay eggs on corpses in Korea. Fast and accurate species identification has been a key task for forensic entomologists. Because conventional morphologic identification methods have many limitations with respect to forensic pra...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Park SH,Zhang Y,Piao H,Yu DH,Jeong HJ,Yoo GY,Chung U,Jo TH,Hwang JJ

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Routine blood pressure (BP) measurement is recommended to begin at 3 years of age, but there are no national BP reference values for Korean children less than 7 years of age. Therefore, we developed sex-, age-, and height-specific BP reference values for non-overweight children aged 3-9 years. METHODS:We an...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee HA,Park B,Park EA,Cho SJ,Kim HS,Choi EJ,Kim NE,Park H

更新日期：2020-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis (CIPA) is a very rare genetic disorder of the peripheral nervous system characterized by recurrent episodes of unexplained fever, generalized anhidrosis, insensitivity to pain and temperature, and accompanied by self-mutilating behavior and mental retardation. We report...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim JS,Woo YJ,Kim GM,Kim CJ,Ma JS,Hwang TJ,Lee MC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was done to characterize the natural course of C-peptide levels in patients with type 1 diabetes and identify distinguishing characters among patients with lower rates of C-peptide decline. A sample of 95 children with type 1 diabetes was analyzed to retrospectively track serum levels of C-peptide, HbA1c, w...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee TH,Kwon AR,Kim YJ,Chae HW,Kim HS,Kim DH

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sutures may cause endothelial trauma and occlusion. The vascular clip system (VCS) clip applier may minimize endothelial injury. Fourteen carotid arteries of nine adult rabbits were transected and re-anastomosed with either #7-0 polypropylene (Group I, n=8) or VCS clips (Group II, n=6). The animals were sacrificed at ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Lee JW,Choo SJ,Oh JH,Lee I,Kwon YM,Lee YJ,Lee SK,Song H,Song MG

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous nocardiosis, which usually manifests in the form of pustules, abscesses, or subcutaneous nodules, is occasionally found in immunocompromised patients. A 59-yr-old Korean man with myasthenia gravis and thymoma developed nodular skin lesions on his trunk. Histopathologically, abscess formation with a dense inf...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Kim CY,Kim TH,Lee WS,Lee AY

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosis is an important complication of central venous catheterization. Among the many intrinsic and extrinsic factors, the patient's medical disease can play a role in thrombogenesis. Behcet's disease (BD), classified as a vasculitis, is a multisystem disease involving the small blood vessels. It is often difficul...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Ko SH,Kang SK,Lee SK,Song HS

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed dinical, histological and ultrastructural findings of 124 cases of sural nerve biopsy specimens to delineate the trends of peripheral nerve diseases in our institute. Eighty-one were men and 43 were women. We categorized them into five groups: specific diagnosis (66 cases, 53.2%), axonal degeneration type ...

journal_title：Journal of Korean medical science

authors： Hong SM,Ha H,Suh JH,Kim KK,Khang SK,Ro JY,Park SH

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00